tion bureaucrats took post. of the party.
this point. orkers couldn't get enough information paratus.
dorse the duction, Iways there: the military threat forced through. agreement became:
of freedom strike.
The too many agreement withstanding authorities cessions Gdansk Loch Walesa signing historic agreement in Gdansk 31 August 1980 basis leading to the Gdansk agree- sion, pay increases, more rest The formation of the Inter- dependently organised strikes, in legitimising ment. These demands included days, freeing of political Factory Strike Committee entire- had been transformed, thanks to the right to strike, independent prisoners and a series of demands What had started as a series of on- transformed situation. the role of the Workers' Selftrade unions, freedom of expres- for better conditions and services. Defence Committee and the Free an become a attempted to split the workers by insisting on separate agreements with the different enterprises, but the Inter-Factory Strike Committee held solid. Pyka was recallec Warsaw and senior deputy premier Jagielski. Day after day of intense negotia followed. The Poland was watching the negotiations. The government went into crisis, and a re-shuffle among the place. the time being Gierek kept hi The intellectuals and Church rushed to support The government put forwarc a demand which was to shape the whole outcome of the agreement that the Inter-Factory Strike Committee accept the leading role built up among the negotiators on Many unhappy about the acceptance of such a clause in the agreement. "The leading role of the party' in Eastern Europe is a synonym for the continuing domination of the bureaucratised Stalinist completely tied to the state apEventually the formula hammered out. Point one of the agreement began: 'The unions enprinciple ownership of the means of pro.
constituting the foundation of Poland's socialist system Recognising the leading role of the Polish United Workers' Party in the state..?. Eventually Walesa acceptance of this point The main points of the tion of the leading role of the party, 2) Recognition of the right of free trade unions, 3) Recognition of the 4) Recognition of the right to accords among scenes of jubilation. many of the workers outside and inside the shipyard gates seemed disappointed that the strike was over. Had the negotiators made concessions state? Did they have to capitulate on the leading role of the party?
Time has shown the Gdansk was, in the opening paragraph, a massive victory for the Polish workers. In recognising free trade unions, the had floodgate to the development of Solidarnosc. Their insistence on the 'leading role of the party' was tantamount to giving notiçe that they intended to take all their conback. But the workers were not betrayed by the agreement similar one agreed at Szczecin. It constituted a crucial turning point organise the Polish workers in the fight against the bureaucracy fight which is far from ended.
Socialist Challango 28 August 1862 pago 7 independent trade crucial prime minister Pyka replaced whole of But for the the Massive tension:
workers were parties.
was 1) Recognipress and were signed But to the fact, the acceptance of opened the Polish and the the struggle to - a
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